Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque:: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.

AI Kahera

doi:10.1386/9781835951316_12

Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.

AI Kahera

Islamic Studies – Academic

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Abstract

The space of emplacement for the first purpose-built urban mosque in Washington, D.C., was developed by Italian-born architect Mario Rossi ‘with an ensemble of relations that makes them appear as juxtaposed, set off against one another, implicated by each other – that makes them appear, in short, as a sort of configuration.’ In a penetrating critique of space, such architectural encounters have featured prominently in the essay ‘Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias’, where Foucault has classified ‘other spaces’ to encode them in his analysis according to their function, fragmented arrangement, and the relation among sites.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas
Subtitle of host publication	Transregional Dialogues and Manifestations
Pages	213-231
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835951316_12
Publication status	Published - Sept 2025

Publication series

Name	Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas: Transregional Dialogues …

Keywords

American Mosque
Diaspora
Mario Rossi
Other' spaces
Places
Sites

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Kahera, AI. (2025). Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. In Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas: Transregional Dialogues and Manifestations (pp. 213-231). (Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas: Transregional Dialogues …). https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835951316_12

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